Liminality : edge and threshold

Architecture, through multiplicity and depth, can bring a fuller understanding to our complex human condition. Literal liminality is a tangible event associated with the bodily transition between, or with simultaneous occupation of, two dissimilar locations. These locations may be separated by a boundary or space. Intellectual, or conceptual, liminality is the simultaneous acceptance of two dissimilar notions or beliefs, a difficult "composite conclusion." Contradictory readings of the same object or space separate these impressions. Both modes of understanding may be supported physically, and more specifically, architecturally. The architectural enterprise, as an art, may literally, that is formally/spatially, advance intellectual liminal understandings of a site. Architecture, through the use of liminality, can demonstrate how experience and concept are mutually supportive in bringing a fuller understanding to places.